Ohio Street Beach

Ohio Street Beach is a small wedge of sand trapped between Chicago's big water treatment plant and the city itself.

North Avenue Beach

North Avenue Beach is a broad crescent of sand held in place by a long curving concrete jetty (groin?). The beach was quiet in the morning,...

Oak Street Beach

Once upon a time, sand worked its way southward down the west side of Lake Michigan, building out into the lake in a series of spits at the...

St. Joseph

Silver Beach in St. Joseph was crowded at lunchtime on Saturday when we passed through (more pictures at hshipman ). St. Joseph is on the ...

Straits of Mackinac

We skirted the northeastern edge of Lake Michigan in the dark and wound up in St. Ignace for the night. We stayed on the lake and in the m...